Dictionary of Welsh Biography

BAILEY family Nant-y-glo, he conveyed the Aberaman estate with the collieries, ironworks, brick-works, private railway, etc., to the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Co., at an aggregate price of £123,500. By 1869-70 the Nant-y-glo and Beaufort works had been disposed of. Crawshay Bailey retired to Llanfoist House, where he died 9 January 1872, leaving an only son and heir, CRAWSHAY BAILEY II, of Maindiff Court (1821 - 1887), who
BIRCH, EVELYN NIGEL CHETWODE (Baron Rhyl of Holywell), (1906 - 1981), Conservative politician councillor. In 1958 he resigned, together with Peter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Enoch Powell, a fellow minister at the Treasury, following a dispute over policy. He never held ministerial office again, partly due to the personal animosity between him and Harold Macmillan (whom he had notably attacked in the infamous Profumo debate), and to his failing eyesight. He was on all sides
BOWYER, GWILYM (1906 - 1965), minister (Congl.) and college principal . Powell Griffiths, minister of the English Baptist church, Grenville Williams, a teacher at the Council School, and especially R.J. Pritchard, his minister at Mynydd Seion Congl. church, Ponciau, where he began to preach in 1923. Gwilym Bowyer entered Bala-Bangor College, where his elder brother Frederick had already been a student for three years and where John Morgan Jones and J.E. Daniel were
BRADNEY, Sir JOSEPH ALFRED (Achydd Glan Troddi; 1859 - 1933), historian such as (a) Genealogical Memoranda relating to the families of Hopkins of Llanfihangel Ystern Llewern, co. Monmouth, and Probyn of Newland, co. Gloucester… 1889; (b) The Diary of Walter Powell, 1907; (c) Acts of the Bishop of Llandaff, 1908; (d) Llyfr Baglan, 1910; (e) (ed.) Hanes Llanffwyst by Thomas Evan Watkins, Eiddil Ifor, 1922; (f) A Dissertation on Three Books, 1923; (g) A History of the Free
BRUCE, HENRY AUSTIN (1815 - 1895), 1st baron Aberdare Born at Duffryn, Aberdare, 16 April 1815, the second son of John Bruce Pryce by his first wife, Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Hugh Williams Austin, rector of S. Peter's, Barbadoes. (The family name was originally Knight, John Bruce Pryce being the son of John Knight of Llanblethian and Margaret, daughter of William Bruce of Cowbridge.) Bruce received his early education at S. Omer, but at the age
BRUCE, MORYS GEORGE LYNDHURST (4th Baron Aberdare), (1919 - 2005), politician and sportsman Parliament Square, London; he organised the competition to select the artist but died before the statue was completed. The family owned the Duffryn Estate, some three thousand acres near Mountain Ash, including a number of disused coal tips, which were, particularly after the Aberfan Disaster, a source of great concern. Lord Aberdare confessed, with some feeling, during the second reading of the Mines and
BRUCE, WILLIAM NAPIER (1858 - 1936), educationalist and lawyer Second son of the 1st lord Aberdare, Henry Austin Bruce, and Nora, daughter of Sir William Napier. He was born 18 January 1858 at Duffryn, Aberdare. He was educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated (1880) in the Honour School of 'Litterae Humaniores. ' In 1883 he was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn and three years later entered upon his long career as an assistant
BUTTON, Sir THOMAS (d. April 1634), admiral and explorer the parish of S. Nicholas; later, the residence was probably on the site of the present house called Duffryn, situated nearby. The date of Thomas Button's birth is not known. He went to sea about 1589. In 1612-13 he commanded an expedition dispatched to inquire into the fate of Henry Hudson and to search for a north-west passage to Asia. Button explored a great part of Hudson Bay. He was knighted on
CORY family (died 1909), daughter of John Beynon, colliery proprietor, Newport, Monmouth, by whom he had one daughter, FLORENCE MARGARET CORY, of The Duffryn, S. Nicholas, lady of the manor, and patron of the living (died 11 November 1936), and three sons: (1) HERBERT B. CORY (died 1927); (2) SIR CLIFFORD JOHN CORY, Bart., president of the South Wales Coalowners' Association, 1906 (died 3 February 1941); and (3
CRADOC, WALTER (1610? - 1659), Puritan theologian established himself at Usk, thus displaying moderation in his views upon tithe. His moderation was equally in evidence when Vavasor Powell was impelled by the failure of the ' Parliament of Saints ' to publish the petition A Word for God and so to manifest his opposition to Cromwell. Cradoc came into the open as the principal supporter of Cromwell in Wales, and a loyal petition, The Humble Representation
DAVIES, CASSIE JANE (1898 - 1988), educator and Welsh nationalist scholarship to the County School in Tregaron, and her family sacrificed a great deal to support her academic abilities. At the County School, she was among a group of notable talents, including Ambrose Bebb and Kitchener Davies, who came under the influence of the charismatic history teacher S. M. Powell. Although English was the language of the majority of lessons, Powell believed in the importance of
DAVIES, DAVID (1849 - 1926), Baptist minister and author at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. At Brighton, he suffered much tribulation, in spite of which he produced a flow of books and pamphlets and a more substantial work, Vavasor Powell, 1896. Returning to Wales in 1908 as pastor of Crane Street, Pontypool, he finally (1909) settled down to his last pastorate, at Penarth, with which his name is commonly associated. He threw himself vigorously into the

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